{"id":207672,"date":"2026-04-23T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207672\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:04:07","slug":"trump-admin-investigating-nyc-schools-over-antisemitism-claims-in-pro-palestine-teachings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207672\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin investigating NYC schools over antisemitism claims in pro-Palestine teachings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration on Thursday launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/05\/08\/chancellor-david-banks-defends-nyc-schools-response-to-antisemitism-at-congressional-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">civil rights probe into New York City\u2019s public schools<\/a> over claims that pro-Palestinian teachers discriminated against Jewish students.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-initiates-title-vi-investigation-nyc-department-of-education-alleged-antisemitic-discrimination\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Office for Civil Rights (OCR)<\/a> said it received reports about a coalition of teachers known as \u201cNYC Educators for Palestine\u201d organizing seminars focused on \u201cPalestine, Zionism, and Resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo child should be taught by his or her teachers to hate their peers,\u201d Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said in a statement. \u201cNeither should Jewish children be taught that being Jewish somehow makes them inherently guilty or proponents of hate and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration will not turn a blind eye to antisemitic harassment. OCR will investigate these appalling allegations to ensure the equal treatment of all students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the exact seminars federal officials referring to were not immediately clear, NYC Educators for Palestine\u2019s Instagram in January advertised a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTHA13BkRWZ\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free \u201cPalestine Teach-In\u201d for children ages 6 to 18 on this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration said NYC Educators for Palestine allegedly taught the kids about \u201c\u2018contemporary and historical Palestinian resistance,\u2019 that Zionists are \u2018genocidal white supremacists,\u2019 and to support the federally designated terrorist organization Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials did not immediately provide evidence of the teachers\u2019 alleged support for Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News has reached out to a spokeswoman for the city\u2019s public schools for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into New York City\u2019s public schools over claims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,85,267,9,24,264,12,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-207672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}